July Transit-Oriented Development Meetings

Presenters Announced for July
Transit-Oriented Development Meetings

The Fairfax County Planning Commission’s Transit-Oriented Development
Committee will hold its next meeting on Thursday, July 6, from 7 to 10
p.m. in Rooms 2/3 of the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000
Government Center Parkway, Fairfax. The previously announced meeting on
June 24 has been canceled.

Jeff B. Speck, director of design, National Endowment for the Arts, and
co-author of “Suburban Nation”

The committee’s meeting on Wednesday, July 26, will include a
presentation by Nat Bottigheimer, director, Planning and Project
Development, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro).

For the times and locations of the July 26 meeting and additional
meetings, visit the committee’s Web page, www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning/tod.htm,
which also provides agendas, resources and presentations, including the
Coalition for Smarter Growth’s presentation from the June 8 meeting.

The Transit-Oriented Development Committee was formed in response to
direction by the Board of Supervisors to provide a more refined,
standardized definition and set of principles for transit-oriented
development. These principles are often referenced for residential,
commercial and mixed-use developments surrounding a rail station in an
urban setting, but increasingly the concept is being applied to stations
in suburban settings such as Fairfax County.

The committee will aim to provide recommendations to the Board of
Supervisors later this year. The public is invited to participate in the
meetings by listening to presentations, asking questions and providing
comments. The committee will evaluate the various information it receives
and it will work toward developing a recommendation for an amendment to
the Policy Plan volume of the Comprehensive Plan, which guides all
development in Fairfax County. Any proposed amendments will then be
examined by the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors, with public
hearings scheduled before both bodies.